Health II

Analyze the cost, availability, and accessibility of health care services.

Analyze methods of overcoming barriers related to solving health problems.

Analyze the influence of laws, policies, and practices, including those related to disease prevention, on health-related issues.

Evaluate positive and negative effects of various relationships on physical, emotional, and social health.

Apply communication skills that demonstrate consideration and respect for individual differences and perspectives.

Evaluate the effectiveness of conflict resolution techniques in various situations.

Describe how internal and external factors influence self-esteem.

Formulate strategies for combating environmental factors that have a detrimental effect on mental health.

Describe the impact of positive stress on building resiliency and promoting mental health and wellness.

Discuss the impact of choosing healthy self-management strategies for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, loss, and grief on mental health and wellness.

Research and explain the behaviors associated with eating disorders and their impact on health.

Discuss how the use of suicide prevention resources such as the National Suicide Prevention Hotline reduces the likelihood of suicide.

Research and discuss data on and prevalence of local, state, and national suicide rates among various groups.

Design a realistic, long-term personal dietary plan that promotes individual and family health.

Compare and contrast the impact of active and sedentary lifestyles on overall health.

Develop a physical fitness profile using appropriate technology.

Analyze the progress of short-and long-term goals in achieving appropriate levels of physical activity, improving personal physical fitness levels, and making healthy personal food choices.

Analyze marketing and advertising techniques in health product and service promotion.

Research and discuss the social and economic impact of chronic conditions, including obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

Create a plan for accessing community and digital resources that can assist in developing healthy eating and physical activity behaviors.

Discuss risk-taking behaviors, including driving under the influence and distracted driving, and their associated consequences.

Discuss and evaluate ways to respond to harmful situations that involve weapons.

Develop educational safety models for children and adults for use at home, school, and in the community.

Discuss and analyze consequences resulting from inappropriate digital and online communication such as sending and receiving photos, sexting, and pornography.

Assess the legal and ethical ramifications of unacceptable behaviors in digital and online environments.

Identify and respond to situations requiring intervention for victims of bullying, cyberbullying, or harassment.

Promote strategies for prevention and intervention of all forms of bullying and cyberbullying such as emotional, physical, social, and sexual.

Analyze how substance misuse and addiction to alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and other substances impact family and community health.

Analyze the importance of alternative activities to drug and substance misuse and abuse.

Identify individual and community protective factors and skills that prevent substance misuse and substance use disorders.

Evaluate the impact of laws relating to the use and misuse of prescription and over-the-counter drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and other substances on self and community.

Identify ways to support and assist someone who shows signs and symptoms of alcohol, tobacco, or drug use and misuse.

Discuss risk-taking behaviors such as drinking and driving with their associated legal, social, and physical consequences.

Analyze physical and social environmental influences on the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs in places such as school, sports, or entertainment.

Design a public health information campaign related to safe havens, where to go for help, or reporting drug-related behaviors.

Develop strategies for preventing use or misuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, including opioids.

Compare and contrast effective and ineffective methods of communicating emotions in healthy dating/romantic relationships and marriage.

Analyze behaviors in romantic relationships that enhance dignity and respect.

Examine how a healthy marriage can provide a supportive environment for the nurturing and development of children.

Identify community resources to support individuals who have experienced sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault, dating violence, and sex trafficking.

Evaluate the importance of reporting to a parent or another trusted adult sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault, and dating violence involving self or others.

Discuss how refusal skills can be used to set limits and boundaries to avoid behaviors that increase sexual risk.

Analyze factors, including alcohol and other substances, that increase sexual risk and that affect setting, perceiving, respecting, and making decisions about boundaries.

Evaluate influences and pressures to become sexually active and why it is wrong to violate another person's boundaries and manipulate or threaten someone into sexual activity.

Analyze the significance of hormonal, physical, emotional, and social changes in males and females and their relationship to sexual health.

List factors such as heredity, environment, STDs/STIs, and the mother's health and nutrition that can affect fetal development from conception through birth.

Describe the emotional changes that may occur during and after pregnancy, including postpartum depression, and identify resources for support and treatment.

Analyze the options available to teenage parents such as parenting or the process of adoption and the legal rights of parties involved.

Evaluate long-term or lifetime effects of bacterial and viral STDs/STIs, including infertility and cancer.

Identify community resources, minors' right to consent under certain circumstances, and the importance of parent or other trusted adult support for STD/STI testing and treatment.

Analyze the effectiveness and the risks and failure rates (human-use reality rates) of barrier protection and other contraceptive methods, including how they work to reduce the risk of STDs/STIs and pregnancy.

Identify the effectiveness of vaccines in preventing the transmission of the most common types of HPV, a virus that may cause genital warts and head and neck cancer, cervical cancer, anal cancer, or other cancers that may occur in males and females.

Analyze the benefits of abstinence from sexual activity, including focusing on personal development and encouraging individuals to build healthy relationships not complicated by sexual involvement.

Assess support from parents and other trusted adults and create strategies, including building peer support, to be abstinent or for return to abstinence if sexually active.

Investigate and summarize legal aspects of sexual activity with a minor person, including the legal age of consent, statutory rape, aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, and indecency with a child.

Investigate and summarize current laws relating to sexual offenses such as sexual harassment, abuse, and assault.